I&O leaders responsible for network planning should use SD-WAN in their next evolution of WAN architecture. However, the constantly increasing number of suppliers entering this market with innovative and disruptive products and services makes vendor choice risky, but the reward is substantial.

The recent retirement of Equifax CEO Richard Smith – after a data breach at the credit reporting bureau put the personal information of as many as 143 million Americans at risk – is just the latest development in an ongoing story that represents an urgent call for cybersecurity action.

Media monster Viacom has been caught with its security trousers down. Researchers found a wide-open, public-facing misconfigured AWS S3 bucket containing pretty much everything a hacker would need to take down the company's IT systems.